Brie, I just found your channel and I am so enjoying it! I’m in Benson, NC and have not gardened before, but I am learning from your channel!

Hello my friend 🙋🤝🙋🇨🇭🇨🇭 Thank you for your very beautiful video👍👍

So helpful! Thank you!

Ah Brie, you must be a terrible poker player. You are unable to disguise your disappointment with this weather. 🤷🏻‍♀ I concur! I’m scrambling to save a selected few of ny beloved ornamental trees as they are shriveling up. It’s been heartbreaking! However….we got a great dousing on Sun night (which will be reflected in your upcoming videos, no doubt). Got about 4” on this side of town! Gave me a break from watering….whew. Small mouth toads are singing and some insects have appeared outta hiding! Yes, agree with other comments. I’m pretty low on butterflies this year tho still have my abundance of dragonflies. Hope you are enjoying your break!

Great tour, it was the bees knees. We haven't seen many butterflies in the garden so far this year which is a concern and there has been a big drop in the number of bees in the last week. We have a lot of pollinator plants in the garden and I'm not sure what's going on. Maybe they will return in the near future and we have coneflowers, knapweed and rudbeckia ready to bloom for them. Hope the heavens open and lots of rain comes your way.

Sweet, I’ve collected my poppy seeds before but then left the seed heads to dry somewhere in a paper bag…forget where I left it. (Oops!)

Have a safe and fun trip, Brie!🌈

Great advice. Thanks for the tips.

Oh, one more idea - while you’re away, maybe Aiden & Abby could make a video!?

I feel for ya! On the Eastern Shore of MD, we’ve been bone dry & hot since April - but yesterday, had 1.84” of rain. 🎉 fingers are crossed for a storm for you today! I’m wondering if you can get a well dug in one of your backyards, to help with the watering? The price might be even, with the price you pay for municipal water. We have a well. I don’t hesitate to water, but it still takes all day. Nothing beats rain.

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12:35 Michigan Lilacs are the best and smell heavenly. I grew up there too. Have a great trip.

Seems like the typical NC torrential downpours have shifted to here in CT. We had another yesterday. Lost power for 8 hours. Trees down everywhere. Wishing everyone a long soft gentle rain.

You’re the only channel I can happily watch now because everybody else has lush rainy gardens and all I can do is try to minimize loss. Group therapy I guess 😃😕 Safe travels.

Great video, wish things were better for your garden because we as gardeners love plants and don't like to see them suffer from drought. Hope the heavens open and lots of rain comes your way.

This is amazing! I love watching your videos, and have been watching for a few years since I started gardening. Do you think this would work as an organic method to treat for mosquitoes in my rain barrel? I use the water to water my veggies, so I have been on the hunt for an organic solution that keeps the water safe for my edible plants.

I saw on the radar what looked like rain over Fuquay!!!! Yay!!! Im in western wake county. it completely passed me by 😥

Your videos are so good, so great. I really enjoy watching your videos. I wish you lots of health and success 💪💪

You learn something new everyday, we don't get mosquitos in Ireland. Years ago we used to go on holidays to southeast Asia and my wife would be eaten alive but they never came near me don't no why.

I've used mosquito dunks in my wildlife pond for years. They work and don't hurt the fish or frogs. Several of my neighbors use those mosquito spraying companies. The companies are very aggressive and frequently try to push me sign up. I always refuse. My yard is full of birds, pollinators and wildlife.

I tried putting these in buckets of water around the yard. The result was drowned frogs so put a rock in there. It does kill larvae, but there were still mosquitoes around as my house backs the woods. It’s cheaper to just change the birdbath water.

What amount of water is required throughout?

Great job!

Can you grow poppies in the Arizona desert?

Great job! I will send watery thoughts your way. 😄🌧️🌧️

1,500?! I won't whine now when I need to plant 12 plants.

Great planting and great selection of plants its going to look amazing when in full bloom. Hope the heavens open and you get the rain you need for your garden.

I’ve found that coneflowers and pretty much anything in the rudbeckia family are really tough and can handle the edge of a woodland. They’d brighten that area up.

Looks magnificent well done work very hard ❤

Marvellous work. Winter here and its cold and miserable.. but the days will sloooooowly get longer now❤

I assume you well watered the soil 'before' digging - yes? I'll have to go back and see what plants these are. Very very very nice project!

We finally got a light rain yesterday! Need more, but thankful just the same.

I love my native plant garden. Yours is huge! I look forward to watching it grow.

Keep meaning to ask, and sorry if this has already been addressed: what are your thoughts on gray water? We live in a condo with a shared water bill but we manage a community garden across the alley. In the very dry periods we save our shower water (a bathtub, not a shower stall) to water targeted areas.

Even Brie, who seems truly indomitable, can be slowed down by that potent combination of too many bubbles and too much heat. :) It's going to be so beautiful!

🙏🏻 for rain maybe this weekend! It’s hard to think about planting anything in this heat and the lack of rain is not something we are accustomed to in NC.

Rain Idea: Plan an open garden for Saturday!

I worked on an organic farm here in Nj it was hard work but I loved it💕I am praying you get rain soon 🙏

great progress👍

Great video, it was the bees knees.

What did you use to kill the poison Ivy? I'm battling it in my zone7b NJ yard.

Wow…3 yards of mulch is very impressive! Looks so good with that dressing though. Good job team!

Great job Brie and Aiden! Just goes to show how much can get done! Cheers !🎉 I just planted a New Jersey Tea Ceoanthus americanus just before our weeklong heat wave in PA and was so surprised because unlike the Itea that I planted at the same time it never showed signs of heat stress, even though it was in more direct sun- I wonder if you have any luck with that plant? I see it is native to NC.

Great job Brie and Aiden! Just goes to show how much can get done! Cheers !🎉

Hi Bree what do you do about slugs?

Garden looks good as always. Love the pathway. I'm in CA 9b. Can't imagine having rain in the summertime, but I wish we did...at least once in awhile.

Great job in the hot sun, it was the bees knees.

Will poppy seeds mature properly in the pods if the stems are cut early? My issue is the wind is knocking over my stems and spilling most of the seed before I can grab. I'm wondering if I can cut some of the pods and place somewhere safe, let them dry then grab the seeds when the pods vent. Thank you!

My shade Garden has been neglected, i spend three years before it resemble a garden, horrible soils and lots of tree roots

wow - a great deal of hard work in the summer heat - well done. Looking forward to seeing the next phase, and all that will come along in the future !!!